Workshops
I offer workshops for women as single events or as a series of sessions. You'll be welcomed into a supportive community to take on the promise and challenge of mature womanhood. This is a potent time: poised between our hard-won wisdom & the possibilities of what we each, uniquely, can build. We'll explore how your life is asking you to expand so that you can:Live your purpose more fully, bring your joy, creativity, gifts and passion to daily life, express what has been silenced, take the risks needed, and bless yourself and your beloveds with your clarity, strength, and unimpeded love. Past workshops include:
Your Anger: Creator or Destroyer of Worlds?
Anger. It’s all around us. It’s one of the basic emotions of our species - but the press on it is mixed. Especially for women.
Unexpressed anger can lead to illness, energy loss, addictions, depression. You've probably heard: "Speak up! You’ll be cleansed, empowered, motivated." But in the wrong setting, expressing it can be used to discredit and isolate you.
We also know that chronic anger is debilitating. It wrenches your gut.... steals your sleep, immunity, & your peace of mind. Not to mention what it can do to relationships. Some say: "Rise above it! You’re bigger than that. Don’t let it get to you. Forgive." But how will the injustice ever be set right?
And as for Angry Women - here's a brief refresher course on that stereoptype: "Shrill. Rude. Overreacting." And the classic "Hysterical". Our anger gets cast as unattractive, illegitimate, and often, as “your own damn fault”. We are passively policed by gender norms about "femininity" …and more actively, through overt threats and retaliation.
Here’s the Wiki-truth: “Anger happens when we’re threatened, offended, wronged, or denied something we really want or need.” That happens a lot to us, as people, and as women. But as women, we are given constricting and contradictory rules for how to handle it. So, what lies in that lesser known territory between choking it down and torching the place?🔥
Are there smart, effective and self-loving ways to deal with your justifiable anger?
The good news: We can have control over how we process our anger, how we express it and how we carry its' lessons forward.
You’ll get help to:
- Use your anger as a source of illumination 🔎 and a guide for action.
- Learn tools to modulate its’ intensity as suits your goals and setting.
- Practice methods to channel it in your own best interest.
- Reap the power and wisdom of our collective experience
Take the "Peek at Pique" anger quiz before our Meetup HERE.LOVE’S AGENDA: It's not what you think
Whether you’re single or in a relationship, you have an idea about the partner you want. They are Perfect!!.…..or at least Perfect For You. But what is that “perfection” you seek? 😍
Beyond ideas about how they look, financial status, humor, intelligence (your requirements here) there’s an underlying question: Who can meet your emotional needs? And what are your real needs, anyway?
But even these important questions can get it wrong. Because…What if we actually chose partners based on their ability to NOT meet our needs, in very particular ways?!! 👀 🥀 What if their role is to help us recreate a challenge from childhood so that we can finally RESOLVE it? 👏🏻
For many, the unconscious goal in romance is to master our childhood wound so that we can recapture our full capacity for aliveness and love. This is a central insight behind Imago Therapy, and the focus of our group this month. We'll explore this idea together - it’s relevance to and applications for your own love life. In my experience and for so many of my clients, understanding your stealth agenda in choosing (or avoiding) particluar partners is a game changer.
I think of this insight as a key to discovering:
- your unique needs in intimacy
- what's seeking to be healed through love, for you
- how to choose partners differently, based on understanding this deeper motivation
Every journey begins with a single step. Let’s take this first one together! 👣 As always, we'll use discussion, laughter, writing, skills practice, sharing stories, role-play and other methods to move you toward your best life.Love’s Secret Agenda & Your Romantic Happiness
Becoming a Charisma Jedi
Be part of this special evening of camaraderie, insight and growth. Lately, listening to the news I’ve been thinking….Good People need to wield more power in this world…And, well…you’re a Good Person…..right?
What is that has the potential to make you:
- more potent in making changes you want to see?
- more memorable in romance?
- more influential at work?
- more effective as a parent?
This month’s answer 😊 is: BECOME A CHARISMA JEDI!
- Electrify and expand your influence using science-based tools to jump start your power, warmth and presence.
- Have fun trying out new skills together, Practice key methods for expanding your reach & pleasure.
- Walk away with more capacity & confidence to make an impact in your life and in the world.
MAYBE SHE WAS BORN WITH IT……MAYBE SHE WENT TO THE MEETUP.How to Communicate like a Master
“Human beings are social creatures. We need social connection to stay physically health and live long. We’re often only connected digitally, so it is extremely important to make a conscious effort to create and maintain close-knit human bonds and a strong sense of community. Any social network will benefit your health to a degree. . . but, biologically we need face-to-face contact and intimate human connections to engage biological systems that have evolved for millennia to preserve our well-being."
Learn the secrets of great communicators & practice the key skills that create emotional bonds. Small changes in your communication style can reap big rewards. I think of them as deceptively small. Talking. Listening. You do it all the time. What’s the big deal? Kind of like Breathing…. a deceptively small act where how you do it makes all the difference.
Turns out, the way we approach and respond to each other has a huge impact on our happiness. We’ll be using some of John Gottman’s research as a guide to help you:
- get more of the emotional nourishment, support and fun you want
- create powerful connections faster
- have the needed conversation(s) you’ve been avoiding
- improve the emotional climate of your relationships.
